Joe In Uganda writes an interesting article about why one from the west might choose to study at a University in the developing world. Specifically, he writes about one students choice to study at Makerere University in Uganda.
Makerere University, Uganda’s largest university, was first established as a technical school in 1922, and in 1963 it became the University of East Africa, offering courses leading to general degrees of the University of London. It became an independent national university in 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: University of Nairobi (Kenya), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Makerere University. Today, Makerere University has 22 faculties, institutes and schools offering programmes for about 30,000 undergraduates and 3,000 postgraduates.
Makerere is increasingly becoming the center of attention when it comes to education for it’s support of international conferences like TEDC2008 and the outstanding performance of it’s students.
